GW Hosts Over 900 High School Students for Model UN Conference

This past weekend, the Foggy Bottom campus played host to nearly 1,000 delegates participating in the 13th annual Washington Area Model United Nations Conference. Last Thursday marked the opening ceremonies and first committee session, where High School students from all over the world took part in a wide variety of intensive diplomatic simulations.

For the first time, the online Model U.N. resource website Best Delegate covered and promoted the conference. Best Delegate teaches students the skills they need to make a difference. Ryan Villanueva, founder of Best Delegate, gave the Keynote address at the conference’s opening ceremonies.

One of the Conference’s highlights was the unprecedented six-committee historic joint crisis simulation on mid-19th century politics, called “The Age of Imperialism.” Students took on the roles of leaders from the United Kingdom, Russia, Prussia, Austria, France, and the Ottoman Empire.